Sutter County Charter Ordinance Measure R (June 2008)
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Sutter County Charter Ordinance Measure R appeared on the June 3, 2008 ballot in Sutter County, California, where it was defeated. If it has passed, it would have creaetd an elective 15-person charter commission to propose a charter for the county.
- Yes: 4,868 votes, or 36.06%
- No: 8,631 votes, or 63.94%
Ron Southard and others formed an organization, the Sutter Charter Committee, in June 2007 to collect signatures to place the measure on the ballot. They needed 2,395 valid signatures; they collected and submitted a little more than 4,000, and elections officials determined that 3,322 of the signatures were valid.
Barbara LeVake is an opponent of Measure R. She says, "This will do nothing to improve job development, economic development. It will do nothing to improve public safety. It will do nothing to improve flood control. In fact, it may very well pull dollars from the county budget in order to fund the implementation of this charter." In general, opponents of R believe in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" view of things, and in their view, Sutter County government isn't broken.
Charter supporters say that increases in pension benefits for county employees going back to 2004, not obtaining an analysis of the impacts of pension increases, backlogs in road repairs, and delays in obtaining levee funding mean that change is needed.
See also
External links
- Election results
- Text of Measure R
- Sutter County's Big ballot decision, Appeal-Democrat, May 4, 2008
